141. Sanctification, Modern

141. Sanctification, Modern

141 MODERN SANCTIFICATION

INTRODUCTION What the advocates of it claim. Once claimed the inability to sin changed to no inclination to sin now. Quarantined against the commission of sin.

I. THIS OBJECTION 1. No struggle for the Christian then.

2. Violates 1 Corinthians 10:12; Hebrews 4:1; Php 2:12.

II. TWO ARGUMENTS (They Make But Two) 1. Be holy. (1 Peter 1:15-16; Hebrews 12:14; Ephesians 1:4; Ephesians 5:26-27.) An answer to one scripture answers all. (a) Their interpretation contradicts these: 1 Samuel 2:2; Revelation 15:4. (b) What do they mean? God’s holiness not the standard for man but the reason why man should be holy.

2. Be perfect. (Matthew 5:48; Colossians 1:25-29; Hebrews 10:14.) (a) Their interpretation of these contradicts . (1 Kings 8:46-49; 2 Chronicles 6:36.) (b) What do they mean? Relative perfection. Imitate perfection; not that we reach the perfection which God has.

CONCLUSION Each is perfected, in a sense, when pardoned-each time pardoned, etc.